Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Text contains several words that sometimes are hyphenated and sometimes not, such as “battle-field” and “battlefield”; both forms have been retained here.

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